[/quote]daysofourlives wrote:19.8 Overthrow or wilful act of fielder
If the boundary results from an overthrow or from the wilful act of a fielder, the runs scored shall be
any runs for penalties awarded to either side
and the allowance for the boundary
and the runs completed by the batsmen, together with the run in progress if they had
already crossed at the instant of the throw or act.
Now they hadn’t crossed at the instant of the throw by my reckoning
I maybe wrong but I think this law refers to a case where say you've got me chasing the ball to the longest boundary and it pulls up just inside the rope but I kick it over because the batsman are going to run 5. They get the 5 they have already run plus the 4 for the boundary[/quote]
That would seem to be the logical intent of the rule, but why then mention overthrows when it seems like since year dot the score has been the intitial plus whatever extra. Someone is not deliberately going to throw the ball past the stumps to the boundary if the batsmen have only ran two.